SOMALIA: U.S. CONGRESSMAN REJECTS TO MEET WITH SOMALILAND OFFICIAL
July 25, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Congressman Donald Paye has refused to meet with an official from the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, inside sources tell Garowe Online.
Mr. Abdullahi Mohamed Du'ale, Somaliland's foreign minister, was recently in Washington, D.C., and asked to meet with the U.S. Congressman but he was "rejected" on at least three [...]
SOMALILAND POLICE ARRESTS SOMALIA MP
Somaliland Globe, Somaliland (Hargeisa)
July 21, 2009
Berber, Somaliland – The Somaliland police arrested and locked up on Thursday a member of parliament (MP) for Somalia on his arrival at the Berbera airport in Somaliland.
Abdullah Haji Ali who is a politician of Somaliland descent and former mayor of Berbera, the capital city of Sahil province is still [...]
SOMALILAND POLICE ARRESTS SOMALIA MP
Somaliland Globe, Somaliland (Hargeisa)
July 21, 2009
Berber, Somaliland – The Somaliland police arrested and locked up on Thursday a member of parliament (MP) for Somalia on his arrival at the Berbera airport in Somaliland.
Abdullah Haji Ali who is a politician of Somaliland descent and former mayor of Berbera, the capital city of Sahil province is still [...]
SOMALILAND'S ADDICT ECONOMY
Gargaar, a Somalia-related blog
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Tristan McConnell and Narayan Mahon traveled to Somaliland on a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Growth of khat chewing habit drains struggling economy
HARGEISA, Somaliland — Somalia's economy is dominated by trade in khat, a narcotic banned in the U.S. and much of Europe.
Eye-popping, head-buzzing khat is loved [...]
JOURNALISTS ARRESTED, BEATEN IN SOMALIA'S BREAKAWAY REGIONS: RSF
AFP/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ii5-Rh544we4FqF0coQg9KehbdNwGoogle
July 17, 2009
NAIROBI — Two journalists were arrested and a television station shut down in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland while several others were beaten in the self-declared state of Punltand, a media watchdog said Friday.
The two Somaliland journalists Ahmed Saleban Dhuhul and Sayid Osman Mire were arrested Monday after police raided a private radio [...]
DONORS THREATEN SOMALILAND WITH FUNDING AXE UNLESS IT REPLACES ELECTION COMMISSIONERS
Somaliland Globe, "Independent News Association", Somaliland
July 15, 2009
Hargeisa, Somaliland – Somaliland 's major financial donors said on Tuesday, they have halted financing Somaliland's democratisation process and threatened to completely cut off election funding unless the "incompetent and corrupt" election commissioners are replaced immediately.
Sources close to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) say the donors insisted [...]
SOMALILAND: FRAGILE DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT
Human Rights Watch
July 13, 2009
Electoral Crisis Underscores Broader Human Rights Concerns
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In Hargeisa a Russian MiG fighter of the old Somali air force stands as a monument to the atrocities Somalilanders suffered during the Siad Barre era. Somaliland has struggled to maintain peace and nurture democracy in [...]
DELAYED SOMALILAND POLLS THREATEN STABILITY – GROUP
Reuters
July 13, 2009
Jack Kimball
NAIROBI – A delay in Somaliland's presidential poll threatens the breakaway enclave's stability and democratic credentials, and the government continues to ignore its own laws, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Somaliland has enjoyed relative peace compared with other parts of Somalia since the Horn of Africa nation plunged into anarchy in 1991. [...]
HARVEST CONCERNS IN PARTS OF SOMALILAND
IRIN
July 7, 2009
Officials in Somaliland are worried about a bad harvest and potential livelihood crisis for poor agro-pastoralists – file photo
HARGEISA – Authorities in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland are worried about a bad harvest and potential livelihood crisis for poor agro-pastoralists.
Abdikader Jibril Tukale, director-general of Somaliland's Ministry of Agriculture, told IRIN: "We are [...]
SOMALIA: SOMALILAND OPPOSITION WARN GOVERNMENT AGAINST ELECTION DELAY
July 5, 2009
HARGEISA, Somalia – Two opposition parties in Somalia's separatist republic of Somaliland issued a joint statement Sunday warning the government not to delay the presidential election again, Radio Garowe reports.
The joint statement from the only opposition parties in Somaliland, Kulmiye and UCID, stated that the presidential election has been "delayed four [...]
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